How To Deal With A Public Inquiry? Views From Residents And Deep Geothermal Energy Projects StakeHolders In Alsace

Abstract

This communication’s goal is to present the “how to deal with a public inquiry? Views from residents and deep geothermal projects stakeholders in alsace” project, ora-géo. This research program in communication science is conducted within the framework of the labex g-eau-thermie profonde, which is supported by the university of strasbourg and the cnrs. Four public inquiries on deep geothermal projects in the eurometropolis of strasbourg were held in the spring of 20151. These will be the main grounds of our investigations. What happened during these investigations and around them? How can this particular field reveal the different public perceptions on deep geothermal energy? Which spheres of representation were mobilized by the target audiences in order to understand deep geothermal energy and its issues? How are these audiences and stakeholders (Associations, politics, institutions, researchers) Taking up the subject? Our research is exploratory and should open up on the development of a more ambitious project on perceptions and appropriation of geothermal energy by the target audiences.